College Football

Former Alabama head coach Nick Saban is one of four coaches who is honored in the Hall of Fame’s 2025 class, just one year after retiring from the sideline. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images) The College Football Hall of Fame announced the members of its Class of 2025 on Wednesday, ushering in a new slate of college football legends. …

Ohio State and Notre Dame are set to play for a College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday. Neither team has won a title since 2014. Outside of the pandemic year, neither program has even played for a championship in the last decade. To get over the hump, both made key offseason moves to bring their rosters up to championship …

GAINESVILLE — Former Florida coach Urban Meyer was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame, becoming fourth Gators’ coach to receive the honor. Meyer, who won two national titles in Gainesville and a third at Ohio State, was chosen on the first ballot. He will join seven-time winner Nick Saban, delivering the 2025 class an unprecedented 1-2 punch from …

Arch Manning’s tenure as Texas’ full-time starting quarterback begins with a bang on Aug. 30, when the Longhorns travel to Ohio State in a rematch from the College Football Playoff semifinals. It won’t be the first start of his career, but it will be his first as the program’s unquestioned QB1 following Wednesday’s news that Quinn Ewers is declaring for the …

Dec 30, 2024; Los Angeles, CA, USA; The Leishman Trophy and Ohio State Buckeyes logo during Rose Bowl media day at Sheraton Grand LA. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images ORG XMIT: IMAGN-921704 ORIG FILE ID: 20241230_jla_al2_119.jpg This is something noteworthy before the national title game between Ohio State and Notre Dame: per The Lantern (the school’s newspaper), walk-on defensive end …

This is Jack Swarbrick’s week to run a victory lap. Doesn’t matter where — around Notre Dame Stadium, past the Grotto or Touchdown Jesus.  The point is, the former Irish athletic director who hired Marcus Freeman should be ripping off his shirt, pounding his chest and whooping at the top of his lungs. It worked. The chance he took on …

Jack Teachey is making his return to collegiate football. After three years as Topsail High School’s football coach, Texas Tech announced Tuesday that Teachey is joining its staff as a senior defensive analyst. “It was a blessing to be (at Topsail),” Teachey told the StarNews. “It might not have shown up exactly how we wanted on the scoreboard, but we …

Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers will declare for the 2025 NFL Draft, he announced Wednesday. The decision ends his career with the Longhorns and clears the way for Arch Manning to start in 2025.  Ewers came to Austin as a transfer from Ohio State with tremendous hype as the first perfectly-rated quarterback in the 247Sports Composite since Vince Young. In three …

Last week, at a news conference before the College Football Playoff semifinals, Penn State coach James Franklin turned to his counterpart, Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman, and asked a question. “How old are you now, Marcus?” “Thirty-eight,” Freeman curtly answered. Franklin, 52, was trying to make a joke about how Freeman’s full head of hair compared to his own bald dome …

Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers will declare for the 2025 NFL Draft, he announced Wednesday. The decision ends his career with the Longhorns and clears the way for Arch Manning to start in 2025.  Ewers came to Austin as a transfer from Ohio State with tremendous hype as the first perfectly-rated quarterback in the 247Sports Composite since Vince Young. In three …

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Riley Leonard expected the worst. As he entered coach Marcus Freeman’s second-floor office for their standing Sunday sitdown, roughly 24 hours after a stunning home loss against Northern Illinois, Leonard braced himself for bad news. After all, he’d thrown two costly interceptions in a game that seemed to dash all hopes for Notre Dame making the …

ARLINGTON, Texas — Four years ago, Quinn Ewers was that guy. He was the No. 1 recruit, the first perfectly graded quarterback in the 247Sports Composite since Vince Young. His initial decommitment from Texas in 2020 as a high school recruit portended the end of the Tom Herman era.  But Ewers later kick-started the Steve Sarkisian era. Since transferring to …

As Alabama football turns its attention to the 2026 recruiting class, the Crimson Tide lost one of its three commitments in the 2027 class. Ba’Roc Willis, a four-star defensive end out of Moody, Alabama, announced Wednesday he would end his commitment to the Crimson Tide after committing to Alabama back on July 30. “(All) love Bama fam,” Willis posted on …

Penn State football will need a new defensive leader to oversee grand expectations for the upcoming season. A hire that’s become almost a yearly routine now for head coach James Franklin. The Nittany Lions must find a new defensive coordinator for the third time in four years after the sudden departure of Tom Allen. The former Indiana head coach moved …

Carson Beck entered the 2024 college football season with a sterling professional outlook. Many mock drafts pegged Beck as the first quarterback taken off the board within the first five picks of the first round in 2025.  But an up-and-down year at Georgia, underscored by an SEC-high 12 interceptions and a UCL injury in the SEC Championship Game that required …